"Michael, watch out for pick-and-roll. Deacon Bey, you guard the basket. ”

If he didn't want to change his tactics, he could only tell Jordan that as long as Jordan kept up with Iron Fist and didn't let Iron Fist get a vacant position, he didn't expect to completely prevent Iron Fist.

Bulls attack.

Jordan ran to the top of the arc, Harper blocked and dismantled, and when Zhou Quan bypassed Harper to catch up, Hawkins quickly began to wrap Jordan, Harper saw it, and hurriedly ran to the right wing and reached out for the ball.

Pippen threw it with one hand, didn't give it to Jordan, and threw the basketball at Harper.

As soon as Zhou Quan saw Pippen's passing action, he immediately turned around and ran, but it was too late, no matter how fast he was, he couldn't catch up with the speed of the ball, not to mention that Harper had already moved to the right wing and narrowed the distance between him.

"Brush!"

The ball was a little high, and Harper jumped to catch the ball, then hit an open three-point jumper and hit a ball.

"He Huo, you don't need to wrap it, you just stare at Harper." Zhou Quan shouted at Hawkins.

“OK。”

Hawkins nodded hurriedly.

"It's Jordan who uses his ability to attract packs to create open space for his teammates." Elgin Baylor said.

"In the case of an iron fist against Jordan, supersonic actually rarely wraps Jordan on the outside, and there are more packs when breaking through." Robertson said.

Zhou Quan held the ball to the front court and approached the top of the arc.

At this time, Rodman ran from the low post to the high post again, and Mutombo stayed one step in front of the basket and did not follow.

Jordan heard the sound of sneakers rubbing behind him and knew that it should be Rodman coming, so he immediately stepped up and pounced on Zhou Quan.

"Loot!"

When he saw Jordan suddenly snatching up, Zhang Li shouted.

The moment Jordan stepped up to grab it, Zhou Quan reacted the fastest, pulled the ball back with his right hand, and then turned around on the right.

In the next moment, Jordan pounced, Zhou Quan had already completed the turn, the ball was handed over to his left hand, and between the forces under his feet, it burst from the left side and Jordan's right side.

"Suddenly!"

Xu Jicheng shouted excitedly.

"Brush!"

When Zhou Quan took two steps to the free throw line, Mutombo had to retreat to the basket again, and then he stopped and threw a small throw and hit a ball easily.

"The Iron Fist King's reaction speed is really fast!" Elgin Baylor exclaimed.

"Watch the replay."

Robertson stared at the replay on the screen in front of him, and also said in admiration: "When Michael Jordan grabbed it, the moment his left foot just stepped out, the reaction of the iron fist came out, it was really fast!" ”

"Michael Jordan's choice to press, it must be a high-post blocking tactic that destroys the supersonic speed." Elgin Baylor said.

3:4, the Bulls attack.

Jordan cut the ball on the right flank, and Harperma, who was holding the ball, passed it.

"Squeak!"

When Jordan received the ball, Zhou Quan pounced on one step.

Jordan quickly dummered a shot and then dribbled through from the left.

After Zhou Quan was shaken, he immediately turned around and defended, half a step behind.

Jordan hit a stop-and-go jump shot in the right elbow area, and Zhou Quan jumped from the right back side to block, a little slower, and his hand almost touched the ball.

Jordan's willpower was very strong, and the action of the shot was not affected, and the basketball flew to the basket.

"Brush!"

The water splashed and the two hits.

"Yes, Jordan hit the first shot." Zhang Li said with a smile.

5:4, supersonic offense.

Rodman wanted to serve quickly, but was stopped by Mutombo, Schramf came down to catch the ball, and Hawkins and Zhou Quan went quickly.

When Zhou Quan rushed across the halfway line from the left wing, he saw Schramf receiving the ball on the right wing and immediately ran to the middle.

Schramf wanted to pass to Zhou Quan, but was stopped by Pippen, and after a two-second delay, passed to Hawkins, who came to pick up.

At this time, the fast break is no longer available, and there is no point in forcing the fast attack, because Mutombo has already passed the halfway line.

Zhou Quan took the ball and began to organize the attack.

"This time the Bulls did a good job and didn't let the supersonic offensive and defensive rhythm come out." Elgin Baylor said.

At this time, Robertson suddenly said very excitedly: "Oh, I received a good news, now the ratings have broken 50 million, which has broken the highest ratings of the G1 battle." ”

"Wow, that's great!"

Elgin Baylor said excitedly: "We thought we could break the G4 battle, but the bull pulled the crotch in the back, and the ratings died halfway, and today it was finally broken, and now it is the highest rating in this finals series." ”

Robertson said excitedly: "In the G5 game of the 95 Finals, the SuperSonics and the Bulls created the highest single-game ratings in the history of the league with 56 million, I don't know if I can break this historical record today?" Roar, I'm looking forward to it! ”

Hearing the news, David Stern of New York laughed with relief.

Rodman came up again to do a high block, Jordan heard the sound of the sneakers rubbing behind him, his nerves immediately tensed, and he quickly took a small step forward with his left foot, and made a poke motion with his left hand.

In the next moment, Zhou Quan also repeated his old tricks, turning right and passing people.

But Jordan's stab was fake, in order to force Zhou Quan to turn right and break through, so he quickly moved a step to the right.

Zhou Quan had not yet completed the movement of turning, and when he just turned to face the left wing, the vision in the corner of his right eye captured Jordan's lateral movement.

At this time, Jordan has not fully completed the lateral movement, his right foot is in place, and his left foot is still moving.

The next moment, he turned to the left again, and with a bang, between dribbles, burst from the right side, the left side of Jordan and Rodman.

"Damn it!"

Jordan moved his guard again, it was too late, and he watched Zhou Quan burst over.

When Zhou Quan hit the free throw line, Mutombo chose to take a step up to make up for the defense, and did not dare to defend under the basket.

Defending the position of the first two steps of the basket can not only force Zhou Quan to make a stop-and-go jump shot in a farther position, but also return to the basket in time.

"Watch out below!"

Jordan, who was in the high position, shouted.

"What?"

When Mutombo heard Jordan's reminder, he felt someone cut the basket from the left wing, and when he looked back, he saw that Leitner had already entered the paint area with the baseline sticking to the baseline.

"Bang!"

At this time, he heard the sound of a basketball hitting the ground, looked down and saw nothing.

"Passing through the crotch." Zhang Li shouted.

"Bang!"

The next moment, Leitner cut to the basket, received the rebound ball, and easily completed a two-handed dunk.

"Beautiful! Leitner's timely inside cut gave him an opportunity to get an empty basket. Xu Jicheng said.

"The three-in-one of high-post blocking tactics, burst tactics and inside cutting tactics, George Karl's tactical ability is still good." Zhang Li said with a smile.

5:6, Bulls attack.

Pippen missed a jumper, Rodman protected the rebound in the backcourt, and Mutombo defended on the spot and blocked his fast pass.

Rodman passed to Leitner, and Leitner passed Zhou from outside the three-point line, and then Mutombo reached the free throw line, and Zhou immediately increased his speed to play a fast break.

As he pushed to the left-wing three-point line, he saw Hawkins one step ahead of Ron Harper in the middle, had rushed past the top of the arc, and immediately passed the ball.

When Jordan in front looked at Hawkins, Zhou Quan suddenly ran to the bottom left corner.

Hawkins heard Harper's gasp behind him as he received the ball at the free-throw line, and then he saw Zhou Quan running to the bottom left corner, Jordan didn't follow, and immediately passed over.

"Not good!"

Jordan saw Hawkins' passing, only then did he realize Zhou Quan's running position, and quickly turned around and chased after him, but he was already two steps behind.

Zhou Quan received the ball in the bottom left corner one step up, Jordan was still two steps away, he calmly jumped and shot three points.

"Get in!"

Zhang Li shouted.

"Brush!"

There was a splash and a three-point shot.

"Beautiful!"

Xu Jicheng shouted excitedly.

Zhang Li said happily: "5:9, the supersonic speed is 4 points ahead." Zhou Quan made three shots, scored 7 points and 1 assist, and was in very good shape on the offensive end.

Now it depends on the state of the defensive end, the last game relied on defense, and Jordan was completely out of state, and this game also tried to play a good defensive state. ”

"At the moment, the Bulls are shooting two of three, and Schramf has blocked Pippen for a jumper." Xu Ji became a Taoist.

Bulls attack.

Jordan decided to play one himself, ask for the ball over half-time, and then start playing Zhou Quan alone on the right wing.

The reason why he wants to fight one by himself is because he feels that Iron Fist's defensive state today may not be as good as the day before yesterday, and he didn't defend his first shot just now, so he wants to try what Iron Fist's defensive state is.

"Singles, king to king." Elgin Baylor said excitedly.

"The ratings are 52 million." Robertson was equally excited.

At this time, Jordan advanced to the position of one step outside the three-point line on the right wing, Zhou Quan did not retreat, but stabbed the ball with a sudden step-up, forcing Jordan to turn around to protect the ball and take a step back.

"The steal threat was too great, and even Jordan had to deal with Zhou Quan's steals with all his might." Zhang Li said with a smile.

On the court, Jordan did not stubbornly continue to hold the ball, turned around, passed the ball to Harper, who withdrew from the top of the arc, and then ran to the top of the arc.

But after only two steps, he suddenly turned around and ran backwards, then changed direction and cut quickly inside the three-point line.

Zhou Quan was a step slower, but he was on the inside, and immediately cut off the passing and receiving route with Jordan at the top of the arc, and did not lose his defensive position.

Harper saw that Jordan had no chance, so he had to pass to Pippen on the left wing.

At this time, Tony Kukoc, who was in the low post on the right wing, suddenly came up to make a block and took the initiative to block Zhou Quan, Jordan took the opportunity to cut into the paint area, and Rodman, who changed the defense, fell behind.

Pippen had a very good view and saw Jordan's inside cut and immediately passed the ball.

Jordan cut in front of the basket and jumped to the basket after receiving the ball.

At this time, Lightner, who was defending under the basket, smashed down with a vicious arm, smashing Jordan back to the floor with the ball.

"Tick!"

The referee blew the whistle, and this defense had to be blown without blowing.

Jordan glanced at Lightner, his teammate on the Dream Team, snorted coldly in his heart, and turned around and walked to the free throw line.

"Lettner, this is a copy of Oakley!" Zhang Li couldn't help but be happy.

"This action is fierce, it's not too dirty, and if you come positively, it's better to prevent it." Xu Ji became a Taoist.

"Zhou Quan's team doesn't allow those dirty moves, and in the past, Leitner played ball, and there were a lot of dirty moves." Zhang said reasonably.

At this time, on the NBC commentary seat, Elgin Baylor picked up the topic just now and said: "If today's ratings can break 56 million, it means that this season's media targeting of Iron Fist will be a complete failure." ”

"Yes."

Robertson nodded, and suddenly said with emotion: "When Jordan won two consecutive championships, the highest finals rating was close to 20 million, but I didn't expect it to more than double now." ”

Elgin Baylor said: "This year's Super Bowl ratings, the United States is 101 million, and there is no hope for this NBA to catch up no matter how it develops."

However, there is hope for the NBA to catch up with MLB (Major League Baseball), in fact, at present, in the past three years, the ratings of the Finals have surpassed MLB, but the ratings of the regular season and the first few rounds are not as high as MLB. ”

That's when Jordan hit the first free-throw shot.

Robertson nodded: "In the 80s, the MLB Finals averaged more than 40 million people watching, and at that time, our NBA Finals were millions of people, ten times the difference.

However, after entering the 90s, under the influence of Jordan, the number of viewers of our finals increased to 10 million, and even reached 20 million, and in the past three years, it has exceeded 40 or 50 million with the influence of Iron Fist and Jordan.

At this time, Jordan hit the second free throw, 7:9, and the Supersonic began to attack.

Robertson continued: "MLB went from more than 40 million to more than 30 million in the 90s, and it hasn't returned to 40 million in six or seven years.

Judging from the ratings of the Finals alone, the NBA has indeed surpassed MLB. But looking at the season as a whole, there is still some way to go. ”

"It's not much worse, this season we have 4.25 million in the regular season, they are 5.01 million, maybe we can surpass them next season, then we will be the second in the four major professional sports leagues." Elgin Baylor said.

"There's also profit, and we're still some distance from MLB, and that's the key." Robertson said.

Halfway through the first quarter, at 12:17, the SuperSonics led by five points at home, and the Bulls called the first timeout after serving.

Jordan scored six points, 2-of-4 from the field and 2-of-2 from the free-throw line. Zhou Quan had 7 points and 3 assists, and made 3 of 4 shots, both of whom were in good shape, but they didn't show much on the defensive end. Zhang said reasonably.

"It's just that no one can stop anyone." Xu Ji became a Taoist.

Zhang Reasonable nodded and said: "The key is that Jordan played very patiently today, there was no chance, immediately transferred the ball first, and then ran to find opportunities, not against Zhou Quan's defensive offense, which made Zhou Quan's defense have little room to play." ”

"Michael, he's playing well on the offensive end, and Iron Fist hasn't done much on the defensive end."

Before the Bulls bench, Phil Jackson praised Jordan and said: "Next, we continue to stick to this style of play, we must be patient on offense, move the ball quickly, and run fast." ”

On the supersonic side, George Karl said to Zhou Quan: "Iron Fist, continue to strengthen Jordan's defense, don't let him get the ball easily." ”

After the timeout, the Bulls didn't make any substitutions, with the SuperSonics replacing Leitner and Matt Geiger, Sam Perkins replacing Schramf at the third and Drexler the glider at the second with Hawkins.

"SuperSonics has changed three benches, and they still hope to use the bench lineup to consume the physical strength of the Bulls' main lineup." Elgin Baylor said.

Robertson said: "Although the Bulls have Mutombo, it's a pity that Mutombo doesn't have the ability to attack with the ball in the low post and can't suppress the supersonic defense for the outside.

Although it strengthens the interior defense and basket protection ability, it is a fly in the ointment, when encountering a team like the SuperSonics that is good at outside projection, if you don't fight him, his defense has no chance to play, unless he has no sense at all.

Of course, if the supersonic shot doesn't have a feel, then you have to rush in and challenge Mutombo's defense, which I think is a situation of more losses and fewer wins.

It's a pity that so far, at this point, Iron Fist has had a good shooting touch, or continuous explosions. ”

(End of chapter)